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NX CAD software

Remove barriers to innovation, boost product design efficiency and quality, and reduce development costs with a powerful, integrated suite of computer-aided design (CAD) solutions.

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NX CAD buyer’s guide

Learn more about the prepackaged NX CAD solutions and how to extend their capabilities with add-on modules.

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Powerful, flexible CAD for start ups to global enterprises

Developed for product designers of all experience levels, NX CAD delivers unparalleled power to:

  • Create illustrations and 3D models
  • Analyze product design feasibility for errors before moving to manufacturing
  • Seamlessly share data to foster collaboration and accelerate production cycles

NX CAD scales with your growth, with four tiers of pre-packaged NX X Design solutions that deliver the precise design power your team needs.

Boost design efficiency and innovation

Accelerate mechanical design processes

Collaborate with customers and suppliers

Reduce design process waste and costs

Improve product quality from the beginning

Streamline work from model to printed parts

Solve design challenges with NX CAD capabilities

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Mechanical Computer-Aided Design (MCAD)

Extend beyond design processes to all phases of product development. Use modeling approaches interchangeably—from explicit solid and surface modeling, to parametric and direct modeling, to facet-based modeling.

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Electronic and Electrical Computer-Aided Design (ECAD)

Design faster with improved collaboration and fewer errors on electronic and electrical components by working on the same digital twin as your mechanical peers.

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CAD workflows

Automate the entire product development process with specific solutions for immersive engineering, industry-specific workflows, part design, detailed tooling design and more.

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Automation design

Take a multi-disciplinary approach to machine design that breaks down barriers between electrical, mechanical and automation engineers—design higher-quality machines faster.

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A trusted, award-winning CAD solution

NX CAD receives high marks for: ease of use and setup, versatility, modeling and visualization & support.

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Compare NX X Design solutions features side-by-side

Explore the different features of 4 scalable tiers of NX X for CAD: Essentials, Standard, Advanced and Premium.

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Case study

Unlimited Tomorrow

NX helps revolutionize remote development of personalized arm prosthetics for kids.
Case Study

NX helps revolutionize the remote development of personalized arm prosthetics for kids

Company:Unlimited Tomorrow

Industry:Medical devices & pharmaceuticals

Location:New York City, New York, United States

Siemens Software:NX

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Flexible deployment options

Start with an NX X Design solution, then add a wide array of specialty CAD and CAD/CAM modules, as needed, using Siemens’ NX tokens value-based licensing.

To fit any workflow and revolving needs, most NX CAD capabilities are available on-demand through value-based packaging.

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The open NX advantage

To provide optional extended engineering process management tools and expand the power of NX, the NX X Essentials Standard, Advanced and Premium CAD solutions include everything needed to transfer data across the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of products. NX X Design Standard, Advanced and Premium also include Teamcenter Integration for NX.

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NX X: High-performance, prepackaged solutions

All the design power you need, with total flexibility, in a secure, SaaS environment. NX X Design solutions for CAD offer full interoperability and data sharing across other Siemens Xcelerator solutions, including all NX CAD/CAM modules, to improve collaboration and accelerate production cycles.

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Explore our offerings to learn and master NX for design and manufacturing, including the free NX Student Edition.

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NX CAD software interoperability

NX CAD software is highly regarded for its robust interoperability— the ability to work seamlessly with different software, systems and data formats. This feature is crucial in today's multidisciplinary, collaborative and increasingly digital product development environments.

Leveraging NX CAD software provides significant benefits such as seamless data exchange, integration with other software & platforms and cross-disciplinary & global collaboration. It supports a wide range of file formats and standards, integrates with PLM, CAM, CAE and IoT systems and offers extensive customization and automation capabilities. With NX CAD, you can maintain flexibility, optimize workflows and enhance collaboration across your complex product development environments.

Advantages of computer-aided design (CAD)

Computer-aided design (CAD) software offers numerous advantages across various fields such as engineering, architecture, product design and manufacturing. With digital tools for creating, modifying, analyzing and optimizing designs, leveraging CAD software enhances your efficiency, accuracy, collaboration and innovation.

With CAD software, you can experience advantages ranging from improved accuracy, enhanced collaboration and better visualization to increased creativity and scalability, cost and time savings and reduced rework. CAD software helps you achieve higher quality, consistency and efficiency in your design processes, making it an indispensable tool in modern engineering, architecture and manufacturing environments.

CAD/PLM software integration

You can integrate NX CAD with product lifecycle management (PLM) software, and NX comes out-of-the-box with tools to fully integrate with Siemens Teamcenter software, one of the most powerful and widely used PLM solutions. This integration creates a unified environment that streamlines the entire product development process, from initial design through manufacturing and beyond. Integrating CAD software with PLM software offers substantial benefits including centralized data management, improved collaboration, streamlined workflows, enhanced product quality, efficient change management and reduced time-to-market. With this integration, you can optimize your product development processes, reduce errors, lower costs and drive innovation, making it an invaluable solution for complex and competitive industries.

Digital twin and CAD

Leverage NX CAD to create, manage and leverage the most comprehensive digital twin across the entire product lifecycle. A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical product, process or system that enables simulation, analysis and optimization in a virtual environment.

NX CAD data seamlessly integrates with other tools in the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, such as Teamcenter (PLM), Simcenter (simulation and testing), Insights Hub (Industrial IoT), and Opcenter (manufacturing execution system). This integration and interoperability enables companies to develop, simulate, validate and optimize digital twins effectively, making NX CAD a leading platform for those looking to leverage digital twin technology for smarter, more efficient and more innovative product development and manufacturing.